Introducing: Becoming an Octopus Organization

Harvard Business Review · Beginner ·🎮 Reinforcement Learning ·2mo ago

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Most organizations are designed for a world that no longer exists. Today's business environment rewards teams that can move faster, decide sooner, and adapt to change in real time. In other words, teams that behave more like an octopus, nature’s master of distributed intelligence, argue Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner, executives in residence at Amazon Web Services. In a new eight-week newsletter, Le-Brun and Werner tackle common habits that hold organizations back and offer quick, practical tips to help you work in more adaptable ways. Subscribe at hbr.org/newsletters.

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Most organizations are designed for a world that no longer exists. Today's business environment rewards teams that can move faster, decide sooner, and adapt to change in real time. In other words, teams that behave more like an octopus, nature’s master of distributed intelligence, argue Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner, executives in residence at Amazon Web Services. In a new eight-week newsletter, Le-Brun and Werner tackle common habits that hold organizations back and offer quick, practical tips to help you work in more adaptable ways. Subscribe at hbr.org/newsletters.

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